Full name: The Great Sea: A Human History of the Mediterranean

Author: David Abulafia Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: History, Non Fiction, Historical fiction Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780713999341 9780199315994 0713999349 019931599X

For over three thousand years, the Mediterranean Sea has been one of the great centres of civilization. David Abulafia's The Great Sea is the first complete history of the Mediterranean, from the erection of temples on Malta around 3500 BC to modern tourism. Ranging across time and the whole extraordinary space of the Mediterranean from Gibraltar to Jaffa, Genoa to Tunis, and bringing to life pilgrims, pirates, sultans and naval commanders, this is the story of the sea that has shaped much of world history. Similar books: The Middle Sea by John Julius Norwich Vanished Kingdoms by Norman Davies Europe by Norman Davies 1492 by Felipe Fernandez-Armesto The Evolution of Civilizations by Carroll Quigley A Brief History of the Western World by Thomas H. Greer Catastrophe by David Keys Civilization by Roger Osborne The Vertigo Years by Philipp Blom Empires of the Sea by Roger Crowley Early Modern Europe by Euan Cameron The Renaissance by Paul Johnson The Greatest Stories Never Told by Rick Beyer Dark Continent by Mark Mazower The Age of Napoleon by Will Durant Miracles and Massacres by Glenn Beck What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew by Daniel Pool Persian Fire by Tom Holland Under a Flaming Sky by Daniel James Brown SPQR by Mary Beard